Eggcorns!

[jixel]

Awesome! There’s a word for those popular malapropisms!

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/found-any-eggcorns-lately/

Ironically a malapropism is not an eggcorn despite their linguistic similarity!

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Comments

[chuckvideo]

Heh I knew them all, and it really hurts to read when someone uses them like in the list you provided. I mean come on, "old timers disease?" People, get a clue.

[jixel]

yeah that was one lame, but some of the others are qutoe common, esp mute point. i cracked up at bonified lol